> Even more despised than the Brunch People are the vegetarians. Serious cooks regard these members of the dining public—and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans—as enemies of everything that’s good and decent in the human spirit. To live life without veal or chicken stock, fish cheeks, sausages, cheese, or organ meats is treasonous.
Yikes. A comment that was a product of its times, I suppose.
It is worth noting that Anthony Bourdain appeared to have changed his mind about vegetarian food after visiting Punjab, India[1], like so many other Western chefs whose only experience of vegetarian food so far was soggy vegetables, coleslaw, cold French fries, and sub-par pasta.
It helps to have a history of vegetarianism going back nearly four millennia, I suppose.